No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

May your future be limited only by your dreams!

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she’d used as a crutch for so many years, but with a deep, aching tenderness she felt might just kill her.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.